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From: "L. R. Mills" <>
Subject: Re: [Ethics] sharing - or plagiarising?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:20:34 -0700
In-Reply-To: <24.a54270c.26ee597d@aol.com>


> I would love to see more information posted to this list regarding
> the laws regarding copywrite issues, particularly issues that
> concern the internet.
>
This topic was discussed in Rootsweb's Missing Links, Vol. 4, No. 39

Here's a portion of the text and a link from that article:

The USGenWeb Project offers four "golden rules of copyright" at
<http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html>;:

o Materials older than 1923 are absolutely safe. (They are in
the public domain.)
o Relaying FACTS is OK. (This does not mean copying.)
o If the use of material created by someone else diminishes the
market value of that person's work, then the copyright has
been violated.
o Getting written (not e-mail) permission from the author/
publisher is the surest way to ensure that you are not
violating copyright law.

(also)...

See Gary B. Hoffman's article "Who Owns Genealogy? Cousins and
Copyrights" <http://www.genealogy.com/14_cpyrt.html>;.

For more information about copyright issues see:

10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained by Brad Templeton.
<http://www.templetons.com/brad//copymyths.html>;

The United States Copyright Office
<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/>;

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